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Charges dropped two years after cop called DWI suspect ‘total stripper’ in text 21 November 2021 Manhattan prosecutors have finally decided to drop charges against a woman allegedly caught driving drunk more than two years ago — after the cop who busted her was accused by her lawyer of lying...

NYPD Continues To Screw Over Its Oversight By Denying Access To Bodycam Footage 22 November 2021 The NYPD's war on its oversight continues. The secretive law enforcement agency has spent years fighting accountability and transparency, making up its own rules and engaging in openly hostile...

If Rittenhouse Can Be Acquitted, Marvin Guy Needs to Stop Rotting in Jail Without Trial for Defending Himself from Cops 20 November 2021 In the land of the free, every citizen is guaranteed to be presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Sadly, however, this guarantee is often...

Exclusive: LAPD partnered with tech firm that enables secretive online spying 17 November 2021 Records show LA police trialed social media surveillance tech from Voyager Labs, which claims its software can predict crimes and help monitor private messages. The Los Angeles police department...

After the DEA Stole $70,000 From This Filmmaker, He Got His Money Back, Plus a $15,000 Settlement Keddins Etienne's experience shows that bullies who seize innocent people's property tend to back down when their victims put up a fight. 5 November 2021 Before a federal drug agent stole nearly...

Inside federal prisons, employees are committing the crimes 14 November 2021 More than 100 federal prison workers have been arrested, convicted or sentenced for crimes since the start of 2019, including a warden indicted for sexual abuse, an associate warden charged with murder, guards taking...

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Videos Are Making It Hard To Trust the Cops2 10 November 2021 There's a lot to dislike about the increasingly pervasive surveillance state, but a little of its danger is offset when the forces of officialdom are themselves captured by the all-seeing eye. All too often, official versions of...

Fifth Circuit Says Man Can't Sue Federal Agencies For Allegedly Targeting Him After He Refused To Be An FBI Informant 8 November 2021 The secrecy surrounding all things national security-related continues to thwart lawsuits alleging rights violations. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has...

A man in upstate New York burst into flames after officers used a taser to subdue him, police say 5 November 2021 A man was tased after a confrontation with officers at a police station in Catskill, New York. The 29-year-old burst into flames and is now in grave condition in a burn unit, his...

Windsor police officer Daniel Crocker holding Army 2nd Lt. Caron Nazario at gunpoint Windsor police officer Joe Gutierrez (since fired) joins in the fun! Nazario lawsuit delay denied 1 July 2021 A federal judge has denied Windsor Police Officer Daniel Crocker’s request to delay Army...

Rapper Fetty Wap, NJ corrections officer among 6 arrested in cross-country drug ring: officials 29 October 2021 The rapper Fetty Wap was charged on Friday with participating in a conspiracy to smuggle large amounts of heroin, fentanyl and other drugs into the New York City region. The...

Cop Charged With Murder After Killing 11-Year-Old Girl in Car Ramming Assault What began with a speeding ticket turned into a deadly flipping of an SUV with a family inside 29 October 2021 Police are overly fond of the practice they bloodlessly call the "precision immobilization technique,"...

Crash involving Greece police chief under investigation: What we know now 25 October 2021 Greece Police Chief Andrew "Drew" Forsythe drove this car "for several miles" after the accident??? Greece Police Chief Andrew Forsythe was involved in a crash on Route 390 last week, which is being...

NYPD officer busted for drunk driving in Brooklyn, cops say 9 September 2021 An NYPD cop was busted for drunk driving during a Brooklyn traffic stop early Thursday, cops said. Steven Grant, 31, was driving in his personal car around 3:15 a.m. on Grand Street in Williamsburg when he showed...

A Subway Rider Confronted Unmasked Police Officers. They Kicked Him Out. 20 October 2021 A New York City police officer grabs a male commuter by his jacket and pushes him through an emergency exit door at a subway station in Manhattan, video posted to social media shows. “You’re being...

New Research Says Police in Schools Don't Reduce Shootings but They Do Increase Expulsions and Arrests 20 October 2021 New research finds that police deployed in schools, commonly called school resource officers (SROs), do not reduce school shootings, but do increase suspensions, expulsions...

NYPD Lawyer Who Oversaw Violent Arrests of Legal Observers Should Be Disciplined, Watchdog Says 15 October 2021 THE WATCHDOG AGENCY that oversees misconduct by the New York Police Department has recommended that disciplinary charges be brought against the NYPD lawyer who directed police to...

Journalists are reexamining their reliance on a longtime source: The police 30 June 2020 For several weeks early this year, reporter Larry Hobbs struggled to nail down the story he was chasing. Police in his hometown of Brunswick, Ga., had offered few details about the death of a young...

Rochester Police officer arrested for DWI 6 October 2021 A Rochester Police officer was arrested by deputies after driving drunk on Monday. Rochester Police Officer Steven Kovacic, 53, was arrested and charged with DWI, driving to left of pavement markings, and stopping, standing, or parking...